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The great Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk makes a triumphal return to chamber music with his regular piano partner Håvard Gimse. The program features two English composers, Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge, whose Cello Sonata was written during the First World War and is tinged with despair and searing emotional force. Britten composed his Cello Sonata in 1961, following his meeting with Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom he dedicated the work. Another person traumatized by the Great War was Debussy, who wrote 'It was cowardly to think only of the horrors being committed, without trying to react by rebuilding, insofar as my strength allowed, a little of that beauty which is currently under attack.' His Cello Sonata (1915) was the first of a series of six sonatas for various instruments that he planned to compose, only managing to write three before his death. As a determined Moravian nationalist, Janácek did not entitle his three-movement work of 1910 'sonata'; he called it Pohádka (Fairy tale) and based it on a poem by Vasily Zhukovsky. Album Tracks 1. Cello Sonata in D Minor, H. 125~Allegro ben moderato 2. Cello Sonata in D Minor, H. 125~Adagio ma non troppo - Molto allegro agitato 3. Cello Sonata in D Minor, L.135~Prologue Lent, sostenuto e molto risoluto 4. Cello Sonata in D Minor, L.135~Sérénade Modérément animé 5. Cello Sonata in D Minor, L.135~Final Animé, léger et nerveux 6. Pohádka~Con moto 7. Pohádka~Con moto 8. Pohádka~Allegro 9. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65~Dialogo 10. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65~Scherzo-Pizzicato 11. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65~Elegia 12. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65~Marcia 13. Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65~Moto Perpetuo
